Part One Group Work Saul Levitt is being interviewed by Mr. Schaeffer. Mr. Levitt is a plumber in New York City. Mr. Levitt is a German male who is about 41 years old. Mr. Levitt is short with reddish-brown hair and discolored teeth. The interview is taking place at Eastchester Bay, on Long Island Sound, in vicinity of Polham Bay Park on September 27th to September 28th, 1938.
Answers: 1. Jacob Stein is the interview I shall be researching. 2. Jacob Stein is an informant. 3. Jacob Stein is Russo-Jewish, but was born in Poland, he is a man, and he is the age of thirty-nine years old when the interview occurred. 4. The interview took place in New York City, in Union Square. 5. The date of the interview is December 5th, 1938. 6. The interviewer is B. Hathaway. 7. No pictures were available.
Image, Source: digital file from original slide
Image, Source: digital file from original slide
This picture respresents the tremendous struggles that the African American population went through just to feed theirselves and have clothes on their backs. Even though African Americans were freed from slavery, the working conditions were similar to the ones slaves were forced to be in. As portrayed in this picture, a migrant working family is standing outside a tin-roof shack, one that is most likely in a shantytown by their work place. The clothes that the family has are very tattered and barely fit them. The children are very small, suggeesting that they have not eaten in a long while. If this family has a father that lives with them, he is most likely working for almost no pay, desperately trying to keep his family alive. This is completely symbolic of the hardships that the African American population of America faced during The Great Depression; terrible living conditions, tattered, old clothing that does not fit, and being awfully thin due to the fact that food is especially hard to obtain due to the lack of a steady source of income. It was also hard for African Americans because they were racially unaccepted in the South, and in places of the North, giving people an irrational reason not to hire them, and to hire only white people, mostly men. The mindset was that the white man deserved the job more than an African American man, however, this is not the case; both deserved the equal right to feed, house, and clothe their families.
Sallie Smith Bell was a Caucasian female who died at the age of 93. On May 15, 2007 Patricia Trebe decided to write a tribute to her. The article talks about how Sallie Bell took any job she could have during the Great Depression. Sallie Bell's first jobs were simplistic jobs. However, one day she decided to start broadcasting over the radio. From here her career started expanding into greater things. Sallie Bell ended up in some soap operas and plays. Leondias Cockrell is a male living in Livingston, Alabama. On September 14, 1938 Luther Clark interviewed Leondias Cockrell. This interview took place in Livingston, Alabama. Leondias Cockrell worked as a farm owner. The person being interviewed is Ruby Pickens Tartt. Ruby Pickens Tartt's occupation was not stated, although it was implied that she did odd jobs. It was implied that Ruby Pickens Tartt was a Negro woman. The interview is taking place in Livingston, Alabama. The date of this interview was September 28th, 1939. The interviewer was not stated. The next interview was of Mary Reese. Mrs. Reese's occupation was not stated. Mrs. Reese's race was not stated, but I believe she was a woman. The interview is taking place in Burksville, Alabama. The date of the interview is December 17th, 1938. The interviewer was Mrs. C.W. Higgins
Part Four Poem:
You walk in to this town, and suddenly, the hope leaves your body
All around you are starving children, begging your for a morsel
You see four white kids run by, which is strange, because everyone else is African American
You stop them, and ask why they are there
"We are the Griffin kids," they reply, "we are a little bit colored, and we got no education."
As you walk by, old sodapop shops and dilapidated farms arise, each in worse condition than the one before it
You observe the elderly men and women, sitting while staring at you with weathered faces
You know that they have seen this before
As your eyes sweep over the horizon, you spot old corn stalks, weathered and decaying from the lack of rain
This all saddens you, for you want to believe that there is still good and harmony in this world, but it is diminishing
"Why must the children suffer, they do not deserve this!" you cry aloud, and the old folk rest their eyes upon you
They know you have no idea of true suffering,always have lived a life of complete comfort, never seeing pain
This comes at a shock to you, but nothing prepares you for the next thing you are told
"This was once a town of white folk, nice ones too," rasps one of the old men
You look up at him, questioning what he said
He will explain to you that the town was once a small town of white people, but when the economy crashed, they left
They left behind a small town for a few small, African American families to inhabit\
You suddenly realize this needs to change now
On a brash note, you announce that you will fund the recovery of the town
You are the founder, and are their saving grace
Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film
Saul Levitt is being interviewed by Mr. Schaeffer. Mr. Levitt is a plumber in New York City. Mr. Levitt is a German male who is about 41 years old. Mr. Levitt is short with reddish-brown hair and discolored teeth. The interview is taking place at Eastchester Bay, on Long Island Sound, in vicinity of Polham Bay Park on
September 27th to September 28th, 1938.
Answers:
1. Jacob Stein is the interview I shall be researching.
2. Jacob Stein is an informant.
3. Jacob Stein is Russo-Jewish, but was born in Poland, he is a man, and he is the age of thirty-nine years old when the interview occurred.
4. The interview took place in New York City, in Union Square.
5. The date of the interview is December 5th, 1938.
6. The interviewer is B. Hathaway.
7. No pictures were available.
This picture respresents the tremendous struggles that the African American population went through just to feed theirselves and have clothes on their backs. Even though African Americans were freed from slavery, the working conditions were similar to the ones slaves were forced to be in. As portrayed in this picture, a migrant working family is standing outside a tin-roof shack, one that is most likely in a shantytown by their work place. The clothes that the family has are very tattered and barely fit them. The children are very small, suggeesting that they have not eaten in a long while. If this family has a father that lives with them, he is most likely working for almost no pay, desperately trying to keep his family alive. This is completely symbolic of the hardships that the African American population of America faced during The Great Depression; terrible living conditions, tattered, old clothing that does not fit, and being awfully thin due to the fact that food is especially hard to obtain due to the lack of a steady source of income. It was also hard for African Americans because they were racially unaccepted in the South, and in places of the North, giving people an irrational reason not to hire them, and to hire only white people, mostly men. The mindset was that the white man deserved the job more than an African American man, however, this is not the case; both deserved the equal right to feed, house, and clothe their families.
Sallie Smith Bell was a Caucasian female who died at the age of 93. On May 15, 2007 Patricia Trebe decided to write a tribute to her. The article talks about how Sallie Bell took any job she could have during the Great Depression. Sallie Bell's first jobs were simplistic jobs. However, one day she decided to start broadcasting over the radio. From here her career started expanding into greater things. Sallie Bell ended up in some soap operas and plays. Leondias Cockrell is a male living in Livingston, Alabama. On September 14, 1938 Luther Clark interviewed Leondias Cockrell. This interview took place in Livingston, Alabama. Leondias Cockrell worked as a farm owner. The person being interviewed is Ruby Pickens Tartt. Ruby Pickens Tartt's occupation was not stated, although it was implied that she did odd jobs. It was implied that Ruby Pickens Tartt was a Negro woman. The interview is taking place in Livingston, Alabama. The date of this interview was September 28th, 1939. The interviewer was not stated. The next interview was of Mary Reese. Mrs. Reese's occupation was not stated. Mrs. Reese's race was not stated, but I believe she was a woman. The interview is taking place in Burksville, Alabama. The date of the interview is December 17th, 1938. The interviewer was Mrs. C.W. Higgins
Part Four Poem:
You walk in to this town, and suddenly, the hope leaves your body
All around you are starving children, begging your for a morsel
You see four white kids run by, which is strange, because everyone else is African American
You stop them, and ask why they are there
"We are the Griffin kids," they reply, "we are a little bit colored, and we got no education."
As you walk by, old sodapop shops and dilapidated farms arise, each in worse condition than the one before it
You observe the elderly men and women, sitting while staring at you with weathered faces
You know that they have seen this before
As your eyes sweep over the horizon, you spot old corn stalks, weathered and decaying from the lack of rain
This all saddens you, for you want to believe that there is still good and harmony in this world, but it is diminishing
"Why must the children suffer, they do not deserve this!" you cry aloud, and the old folk rest their eyes upon you
They know you have no idea of true suffering,always have lived a life of complete comfort, never seeing pain
This comes at a shock to you, but nothing prepares you for the next thing you are told
"This was once a town of white folk, nice ones too," rasps one of the old men
You look up at him, questioning what he said
He will explain to you that the town was once a small town of white people, but when the economy crashed, they left
They left behind a small town for a few small, African American families to inhabit\
You suddenly realize this needs to change now
On a brash note, you announce that you will fund the recovery of the town
You are the founder, and are their saving grace